Update on Syria revolution -The other side of the coin ignored by the main stream news

#Syria|Regime and RU extend the fight to all South Damascus

The Syrian regime extended its military campaign on the areas of the South of Damascus to include some sectors controlled by the armed opposition this morning, after fighting in the previous two days was confined to areas controlled by Daesh control and HTS.

The regime militias bombed the rebel positions of the armed opposition factions in Daboul Street in Silikha district at Tadamon neighborhood, amid attempts by the regime’s militias to advance at the expense of the opposition in that front.

The Syrian regime also targeted the town of “Beit Samh” under the control of the armed opposition yesterday, Thursday, April 19, an air strike targeted the area behind the municipality building and caused material damage.

Regime forces shelled the outskirt of Yalda with surface to surface missiles, in addition Yarmouk refugee camp with mortars.

Video of regime bombing on Daesh areas in South Damascus – 20/April 2018

The regime also broke into HTS positions in the west of Yarmouk refugee camp amid heavy shelling over the positions under their control, despite ongoing negotiations of their departure to Idlib.

Sources close to the liberation of the Sham said the fighters responded to that attack and killed a number the regime militias, and Iba news agency (HTS news agency) published pictures of the regime militias killed.

The regime and the Russians are shuffling the cards in the South of Damascus in order to end it simultaneously and get rid of the HTS and Daesh and to move the opposition factions towards northern Syria so that Damascus and its countryside can be declared completely safe and free of any presence of the opposition or the extremist organizations.

There needs to be a defacto zone in southern Syria, where any regime or Russian aircraft cannot operate without risk of being shot down, that is controlled by Jordan, Israel, UAE, Saudi Arabia and other nations. Jordan has no will to implement actions against the Syrian regime, unless they are agreeing with other countries taking part. Saudi Arabia largely gave up on Syria, they do not have sound strategies, and they have little means of being formidable. However, they are still consistent in their disagreement to the Assad regime.

Russian ceasefires are a sham. The only protection that will work, is a danger zone for Syrian aircraft, sponsored by nations who are in disagreement with the Syrian regime. Any way that grounds Russian and Syrian without risking wider war, will work. Iranian militias are nothing without air power from Russia.

Insightful piece on Rosneft in Iraq and how the Kremlin uses the company – and its bold chief executive – as an instrument of Russian foreign policy across the world, from Kurdistan to Venezuela and India. – Simon Robinson (tweet)

Ship spotting of Bosphorus (Bosporus) Strait, Turkey.
@yorikisik posts on Twitter on April 19, 2018 that RORO (roll-on roll-off) Russian ship Sparta II (the other recent ship with a similar name was Sparta III) passed through the Bosphorus expected for Tartus, Syria.

This ship is delivering military assets for the Russian company, Oboronlogistica. In the picture of the ship with cargo, it is unsure if one item on the ship is an APL-500 modular camp (IDK if that’s a shipment of portable living quarters).

1/ Since last night #Assad forces has launched a large-scale aerial and land military operation in #Yarmouk without the slightest concern to 1500 civilians who chose to remain in their houses regardless of siege that has been going on since 2013.

2/ Regime claims that it is a fight against ISIS; however, the scorched earth policy (as usual) does not support such a claim. It is a fight to erase the last remnants of our existence in Syria & on a side note: THERE ARE 1500 CIVILIANS, kids, old men, women inside the area.

3/ this is 3 years old piece written by @kshaheen of the Guardian and gives some background. Only difference between the time it was published and now no more 18000 civilians trapped in #Yarmouk , but 1500, however, for #Assad this is the slightest concern

4/ the horror of watching your childhood neighbourhood being erased is unbearable, #Yarmouk’s only mistake (not ISIS) but that it stands in the face of #Assad re-imgination of Damascus and its suburb as his area of total influence. With its destruction the circle comes full

5/ he will be punishing us; the ones who disagreed with his rule, punishing civilians; who refused to let go of and leave their properties and homes and, in couple of days; after he render everything to rubble; he will announce his ambitious “re-development” plan. – Salim Salamah (2018 April 20)

#Auschwitz is not a memory; tens of Syrians gassed to death tonight. #Assad has made sure to to carry the Nazi hatred for the other, the different and the disobedient. #Douma today, like #Ghouta August 2013 will come to represent the failure of the world to stop a mass murderer. – Salim Salamah (2018 April 17)